The trial of Vitaly Kaloev is underway in Switzerland Yesterday in the cantonal court of Zurich the trial began on charges of Russian citizen Vitaly Kaloyev in the murder of Dane Peter Nielsen. The prosecutor's office considers Kaloyev guilty of going to Nielsen's house on February 24, 2004 and deliberately killing him by stabbing him several times.

The Central Bank expects massive lawsuits from banks Possible litigation with banks that have not entered the deposit insurance system haunts the regulator. As Sergei Golubev, director of the Central Bank's legal department, said yesterday, negative decisions of the Bank of Russia can be overturned by the courts. So far, however, there have been no precedents on the market.

Happy hormones and positive impulses From a biochemical point of view, happiness (more precisely, various kinds of positive emotions experienced by a person) is a complex process that involves a variety of proteins and hormones produced by our body. Several substances are called “happiness hormones” or “happiness molecules” in popular literature.

Relatives of militants in Kabardino-Balkaria are ready to follow the path of the Beslan mothers Having repelled a militant attack on security facilities in the Kabardino-Balkarian capital of Nalchik on October 13-14, law enforcement agencies and the civil administration of this republic were faced with the need to once again take up defensive positions. Relatives of the dead militants gather daily in the city center and demand that the bodies of their loved ones be returned to them.

George Bush received Viktor Khristenko and top managers of Russian companies On the first day of a four-day trip to the United States, a delegation of Russian entrepreneurs led by Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko was received by George Bush.

The name of CIA secret agent Valerie Plame could have been deliberately revealed by US Vice President Dick Cheney. The American newspaper The New York Times reported this, citing sources in the commission investigating the leak of classified information from the White House. Previously, the chain of people who could tell the agent's name to journalists ended at the vice president's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, and the president's chief political adviser, Karl Rove.

The company wants to buy PetroKazakhstan entirely Late this evening Moscow time, a Canadian court is due to announce whether it approves the deal to buy PetroKazakhstan, a Chinese CNPC registered in Canada, for $4.18 billion. But now the Chinese have a competitor - yesterday LUKOIL announced that it was ready to acquire PetroKazakhstan for the same price. price.

How to become happy? This question is answered by psychologist Alla SPIVAKOVSKAYA, professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University and the author of the original psychotherapeutic system “Beatotherapy.” Beatus means “happy, blessed” in Latin. Having been doing her business for more than 30 years, Alla Spivakovskaya came to the conclusion that the main goal of psychotherapy is human happiness. And not at all in the sense that most people think. -What is happiness?

Russians are not against the opposition, but not for it either Only a third of Russians believe that there are serious opposition parties in the country. At the same time, the number of citizens who feel the need for them has increased slightly in recent years. Sociologists from the Yuri Levada Analytical Center came to these conclusions after conducting a survey of 1,600 Russians in 128 localities in 46 regions of the country in October.

Forecast for the coming days North Atlantic cyclones change each other almost daily; the previous one already on Tuesday night brought a significant change in the weather throughout our territory. His campaign across Russia continues, but in the next two days he will make the weather beyond the Urals. But a new cyclone headed from Scandinavia through the Baltic to the Volga, where it is expected on Thursday.

In recent days, Ukrainian officials have launched active communication with the leadership of the NATO bloc. Last week, Alliance Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visited Ukraine. After talking with him, Viktor Yushchenko said that Kyiv’s intensive dialogue with NATO will soon end with “rounds of negotiations” regarding membership in the Alliance.

Vladimir Putin is advised to assign increased funding to the 30 best universities The quality of Russian education and the pace of educational reform were criticized yesterday by Vladimir Putin. At a meeting of the Council for Science, Technology and Education in the Kremlin, the president announced a “decline in the fundamental nature of secondary education” that has emerged in the last decade.

The main FIBA ​​European Cup has started Dynamo St. Petersburg and Khimki near Moscow started with victories in the European Cup - a new continental tournament under the auspices of the International Basketball Federation, which replaced the FIBA ​​Euroleague. The team from the banks of the Neva, which won the main prize of these competitions last season, held under the old name, defeated the Ukrainian club Azovmash (Mariupol) on their site - 77:72.

President Held a meeting with the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel. The governor told the head of state about the socio-economic development of the industry this year, as well as development prospects for the future. According to Mr. Rossel, the growth of the gross regional product for the nine months of the year in the region amounted to 108.7%. Next year, as Rossel noted, the Sverdlovsk region hopes to receive $3.7 billion in its own investments and $1.5 billion in foreign ones.

Dagestani separatist leaders hunted down by teachers The special services of Dagestan yesterday announced the liquidation of three leaders of the sabotage underground operating in the republic - the so-called emir of the Dagestan direction Gadzhimagomed Ismailov, his deputy Murad Lakhiyalov and the alleged ideological inspirer of the Wahhabis Makhach Rasulov.